Digital Distribution

Interesting figures today from the NPD Group, and it doesn’t have to do with console sales. The research firm suggests that 37 percent of Americans now prefer to play games on PCs thanks to the ease of digital distribution. That’s…

Looks like many of SEGA’s financial woes have finally caught up with them as the gaming company has begun closing its offices in Spain, France, Germany, Benelux, and Australia. Sega UK still remains, but the one-time dominant corp has all…

This morning, we posted a rumor regarding Microsoft’s next console. The follow-up to the Xbox will not, supposedly, include a disc drive for physical media. This, gamers, is not good news. My argument for why this is a problem comes…

The U.K.’s biggest specialist games retailers, and my favorite places to frequent after picking up my traditional Saturday morning latte, are set to embrace digital distribution for the PlayStation 3 by offering downloadable games in store from today. Game and…

GameFly has announced the beta for a massive gaming hub available to both subscribers and non-subscribers starting this holiday. Players will be able to purchase and download games, read a stream of gaming news and share their libraries with friends….

So there’s this guy, Jay-Z, who mentored another guy, Kanye West. They both became fairly successful artists. One day, probably while getting drunk at a Parisian fashion show, they suddenly decide to do an album together. Get this, though: They…

New data from market research firm Newzoo has found that United States consumer spending on video games in 2011 will reach a total of $21.6 billion, just a bit lower than 2010′s statistics. In addition to this statistic, The 2011…

The Amazon App Store for Android will come out swinging when it launches in the next few months, scoring exclusivity for the Android version of the upcoming Angry Birds title Angry Birds Rio. The game was developed by Rovio in…

According to the Vice President of Marketing at Namco Bandai, video game retail is going to be here forever. It’s been a constant consideration on the minds of publishers, developers and consumers ever since digital distribution started to rear up…

Digital distribution is a scary future for the gaming industry. Not for publishers and marketplaces, but for consumers. While companies operating under the model of digital distribution may show it off as the land of sunshine, rainbows and roses, it’s…